The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission today reached an important agreement on new EU Covid certificates to make travel easier in time for summer.  

Led by S&D MEP Juan Fernando López Aguilar, negotiators in the European Parliament found a provisional deal on a common EU certificate that will show if a person has been vaccinated against Covid has a negative test result or has recovered from the virus.  

Today, Jean-Bernard Lévy, Chairman and CEO of the Paris-based electricity utility EDF Group, was elected President of Eurelectric, the association representing the European power sector which brings together more than 3,500 companies in power generation, distribution and supply. His two-year mandate will pursue the transformations needed to shift away from fossil fuels, making the Green Deal a reality through electrification.

Socialists and Democrats have paved the way for a Digital Single Market that respects the rights of online users, protects and informs consumers, and ensures equal access to all. This plenary session, S&D members have confirmed our priorities regarding the functioning of the Single Market and reiterated the Group’s main recommendations for human centric AI.

Evelyne Gebhardt MEP, S&D negotiator on the file, said:

Am Mittwochabend hat eine Mehrheit der Abgeordneten des Europäischen Parlaments für einen Antrag der Linksfraktion gestimmt, die Patentrechte auf Corona-Impfstoffe in der Zeit der Pandemie auszusetzen. Dazu Helmut Scholz, Mitglied der Fraktion THE LEFT, der den Antrag mit eingebracht hat:

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